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Blissful moments
are so few and so rare

We seem to forget
what’s really out there

Not taking a moment
to stop and wonder

Can we really say we never bothered?

So many days
and so many nights
Leave me to ponder

Who are you to say
There are no others?

How arrogant of we
to think
we’re the only
intelligent beings

And

Who are we to say
We are truly free?
They claim
some things in life can never be

So how dare you say
When and how we pray?
And what gives you the right
To end so many lives?

You’re not the keeper of time
You don’t get to choose
when and how we die

But that’s okay
You go ahead
and live your life
Trapped in oblivion
Failing to see the other side

And that’s alright
We can accept our strife
We’ll keep our dignity
and remain up right

When all falls into turmoil
We’ll have our family
and
We’ll have our morals

But when our beautiful world
comes crashing down
We’ll all stop and think
Who's fault is it now?

Remember
Nature knows no bounds

And with each passing day
Death makes it rounds

Someday soon
You'll be buried in the ground
And all that will remain
Is your little plaque
or your statue standing tall

So when you really think about it
You've done absolutely nothing,
nothing at all

© 2012 Christina Jackson
I once knew
A love that grew
Into magical roots

Never swaying
Upon renew

It is love
That kept us true

When you knew love
You knew
You

© 2012 Christina Jackson
This was actually my response to one of Langston Hughes poems "Love Song for Lucinda" , for my composition class last semester. Read a poem and respond in poem form with your perspective and viewpoints of that poem.
Oh don’t you stare
At that raven black hair

The twinkle in your eyes
Reaps of its own demise

That glimmer
Is a faint smile

Hiding behind
Hindered lies

You can’t seem to find
The hope that’s buried inside
The faith
That keeps you alive

You try and you try
Hesitation
It dies

But you can’t seem to face
That one day soon
You too will be a waste

© 2012 Christina Jackson
Fire by night
Ice by day

Seductress

In each and every way

So alluring
I wish she would stay

Oh doesn't her scent, drive you insane

She wanders and strays
Through the darkest of days
She fumbles and sways
Trying to find her way

A heart so broken
Beyond decay

So many lovers have slipped away
Should she leave?
Or should she stay?

Passion rages inside

Oh does she try to find
A heart so gentle
A heart so kind

So close to losing her mind

She sees the pieces begin to fall,
so elegantly into place

And in that moment
She's finally found her way

© 2012 Christina Jackson
Wherever you go
I go
Where your heart went
I do not know
When my eyes were wet with tears
You were there to wipe away my fears
Nothing can compare to the love we shared
This love blossomed
Into the prettiest a rose
And died the sharpest of thorns

Where you went
I’ll never really know
You were the half
That made me whole
My deepest sorrows
For you will only know
Time will only show
If I’ll be rid of this
Nothing can compare to the love that we shared


© 2012 Christina Jackson
new
Ever so confused
I wish you knew
You are my muse
I can’t help but feel
Butterflies
And bow ties
So painstaking
As my love thrives
I see
You are not what you seem
I begin to gleam
Are you only but a dream?

© 2012 Christina Jackson
I
Her hair flows into thickly currents
Withering through my mind
Grasping my emotions
Like the tides
And waves
of the ocean
Motionless
Trapped;
Pushing farther and wider
And faster
Never a miss
She tugs at my heart strings
So beautifully a violin
She holds on to her hopes
And dreams
Forever wishing she could win
We all soon find out
Life is like a game
We all must play
To reach an
END.

© 2012 Christina Jackson
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